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It was hotter than 🔥Hell🔥on this glorious day at fabulous Apogee Stadium. ❇️🦅❇️

According to D1Docket, we have added a game in OKC against Tulsa.

Training camp has started. For those keeping an eye out for coverage of Mr. Fine, he is sporting the number 8, per their roster.

I never hear in real life, anyone, ever, talk about Liberty in any capacity.

He injured/tore his bicep on his throwing arm when he hit the top of Boogers helmet on a follow-thru on a throw during a pre-Texas game passing drill. He was out the rest of the season after the Texas game.

It seems to me that our offense may be somewhat overrated due to the fact our defense is so bad. Our offense gets the ball a lot and is able to score because the defense can’t stop anyone. So Iin many ways out offensive statistics are misleading.

University of Phoenix has a huge alumni base too. It's all about online enrollment from the homeschooled and military. Liberty gets 'talked' about for reasons that they are not proud of... and not talked about for things they want to get talked about.

According to the Roughrider’s roster, Mason wears #4. His #6 and # 9, his high school number are taken by a defensive lineman and a punter, respectively. 6 is divisible by 4 by 1 with 2 left over, which is half of 4. 9 is divisible by 4, 2 times with 1 left over because Mason is number one with me. See how this works ???

Rice is making progress towards building a $100,000,000 athletic endowment. I know Wren has done many great things since taking over at UNT, but is this something on his radar? I'm sure he is aware of Rice's ambitions, but I'm wondering if we are currently working towards something similar at UNT, or if it is something we need to get in place too. $100 million is probably not a realistic goal, but a multi-million dollar athletic endowment would certainly benefit our athletic department both financially and in perception. Thoughts? https://riceowls.com/documents/2019/4/7//Rice_Athletics_2019_2023_Strategic_Plan_WEB.pdf?id=8790

Worth the watch. puts things in perspective. thanks P.

I have been in their stadium and practice facility and although they are good ours are much nicer, for what it’s worth.

That would be a fun trip up 35

You're so kind.....but probably the only one....😉 Excellent grouping. I would find room for Nick Zuniga, who started at OG as a true freshman and made all conference the next three years. People don't know how hard it is for someone to become a starter in the OL as a true freshman. After Greene, Hardeman and Booger, I would nominate Rex Johnson in the DL. Ken Washington was good, but IMHO Jordan Case, and Joe Stevenson were better QB's of that era. In the Corkey Nelson-Dennie Parker era, the two best were Scott Davis and Mitch Maher. Steve Ramsey was more versatile than most people realize. His senior year he was the team punter with a 38 yard average. John Love deserves mention as well. He didn't have Darden numbers, but he was the leading receiver in the nation in 1966 and was honorable mention all-American. The year before he got 144 yards receiving against (former SWC power) Arkansas in the 6th game of the season. By the sixth game Arkansas had plenty of film on him and still couldn't stop him.

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I think you're right.... The problem with that thinking is our offense isn't CLOSE to good enough to be able to pull that off like those other teams could. Those offenses (Baylor, Tech, etc) were head and shoulders better than ours. In points per game, Baylor was #1 in the nation 3 years in a row. We've never sniffed that. The highest LIttrell has ever been is #19 in 2017. Someone said earlier that his offense is overrated and they are correct. It is massively overrated. Last year in pts per game, we ranked #23 at 34.4 and 2 cancellations probably helped us as we didn't play A&M. Above us on the list, Coastal Carolina, LIberty, SMU, Buffalo...even Texas whose coach was run out of town for many reasons but one being his offense wasn't good enough. They averaged 42.7 per game last season. To put this in perspective....Littrell is seen as the offensive guru, he's not even the best in a 30 mile radius. La Tech had the #1 offense in the nation in 2012 at 51 points per game! That was Sonny Dykes. Then it took Skip Holtz 4 years and he had La Tech's offense back at an elite level at #2 in the nation in scoring at 44 pts per game. #1 that year? Conference mate WKU. We've never been close to that level. I'm not even going to get into the meaningless yards and points Littrell has stacked up after being blown out early as it's been covered. While 34 points per game is nice...especially considering how dreadful our offense was with McCarney....after 6 years our offense is no where near the level necessary to make up for the defense that is played here. If Littrell is going to have that mindset, he needs to be averaging 40-50 pts per game.

I didn't want to be left out on creating an SMU thread. Forgive me.

Ugh! Josh Greer, I'd forgot about him.

He won $248,000 Has won $1,898,891 on the year (55th on the Tour Money List)

We are going to shock the world! GMG

Anything remotely comparable to that happening now with Smatresk and Baker seems completely out of the realm of possibility. Not to say they are perfect, but they are damn near the antithesis of Bataille and RV when it comes to running this AD. So much so that I don’t think we can use what happened under them as any real predictor of imminent AD decision making.

Great perspective. First and foremost we are all folks with family and jobs. Football is just something we complain about on the internet. Excited to have Phil on board. I see great things happening with this energy and passion.

I've always thought Shorter was a poor-man's version of Megatron. I feel like we have only seen glimpses of what he can do. Not enough consistency around him (plus an injury, right?) to really get the numbers we think he can get.

She must have seen that NCAA tournament game and decided she just couldn’t do the Purdue thing anymore.

Wish I shared your prediction but the NCAA has created a system where punishment will be difficult.

Undefeated in 2021 and on probation by 2024.

Sure, having a bad (horrible) defense will increase positive offensive stats. However, NT was next to last, in offensive time of possession. NT was over an 100 total offensive yds a game over the second place team. That a lot to contribute to a bad defense. NT also substantially led in offensive yards per play, A stat that ignores the time of possession edge. NT' offense was far from overrated based on conference play.

Cant even give us a little bit of hope can you. lol

Too quiet for my liking. We need to land some high caliber players soon. Too many other programs in our region and conference are loading up on the type of talent we need.

Just under $2 mil. Not bad at all.

I’m pretty sure Dickey doesn’t have that much involvement in the offense there.

The goal should be to continue to work toward an undefeated season in a few years, schedule and beat a top 10 team, and get an invite to the CFB expansion dance of 12. There’s now a path where there was none before. Let’s get better and better and get ready for 2024 or 2025.

Plum has been around for how long? And the guy still finds reasons to support Mean Green and write GMG.com essays (in full color). He is a wizard.

Is it me or does it seem everyone is passing us by?

I’ve seen Rice as low as 6th, UTSA as high as 1st, and LaTech as low as 4th. The only constant is UTEP at 7th😩😂. Lack of injuries and some good luck may go a long way in determining the division champion. There is no “team to beat.”

I wonder what Becki and Jerry Falwell Jr. are doing nowadays. You think they still have a pool?

@NorthTexasSportsNetwork UAB getting a new stadium is new news to me! Good information to have.

Syracuse is probably another bottom dweller of the ACC, so the first real test is gonna be UAB. It’s UAB’s first home game in their new stadium, so a massive crowd could get Liberty to slip up. Ole Miss and Army will be tough as well. If we can get our crap together, we could make things interesting…

I'm on a TCU board often, and they talk about the Ponies a bunch, but nothing compared to the undeniable obsession here. That TCU vs SMU game is going to be big.

For me personally, I’d take him in a heartbeat (with substantial oversight of course) but there are too many pitchforks around my beloved alma mater for that to ever happen. If Seth does get tossed, we will make a “safe” hire and strive for 6-6 and a bowl game. It is the North Texas way, but hey, we do it with dignity, just ask us. PS. I’m still waiting for the sky to fall at Liberty where Ian McCaw is AD and the 4 schools Kendal was hired at since Baylor but I’m sure their reckoning will be along any time. Boy are they gonna regret it when the news organizations find out somebody hired those guys after Baylor. Hell, @TruthWinsTate Wallis got hired here despite pissing off Brenda Tracy, got accused of misconduct by a high school student and the national news STILL didn’t give two shits about what is happening in Denton.

Bennett worked with Briles a long time. Why would Bennett take the job at UNT under a likely lame duck head coach? Perhaps Bennett is here to lure Briles, or perhaps Bennett is already part of an ongoing plan to bring in Briles next year?

Man, where did this all go wrong... We were two teams in the same rebuilding scenario. New coaches. We even started getting the upper hand. Sonny and his brilliant hacking of the transfer portal completely wrecked us up. Credit where it's due, they did a great job rebuilding. We just kinda flopped on the whole coordinator side after Graham left.

I found a great UNT t shirt at the Southlake Costco. I'll post a pic tomorrow.

Or Texas

Bucs OTA report - 6/1 - Darden Steals the Show